PositivelyBrainwashed
I Love YTtalk
I recall uploading my first 5 videos that I spent over 40 hours on, getting barley any view and thinking 1000 subs would be impossible. The following are key lessons that helped me get to 1000 subs in under 4 months:
1. Learn and study from channels bigger than you. Anyone in the forum or who I come across who has a channel bigger, I respect and take notes even if I don’t agree with every point. I check out their channels, looking at little details.
2. Teach what you know to channels smaller than yours. This will help reinforce what you know. And if you’re able to teach something new to a bigger channel, they’ll be more inclined to teach you a secret or two.
3. When you’re beginning, experiment with a lot of ways to promote. I used to promote through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Periscope, Google+, Reddit, various forums and much more. Then after awhile, look at your analytics and see which ones are actually working. Then spend 80% of your promotion time on what actually works, while still experimenting with 20%.
4. Subscribe to Youtube growth channels. My favourite one is Roberto Blake’s channel, as I watched him grow from 75k sub to 128k sub during my 4 months. I learned a lot about Youtube’s SEO from him. Moving forward, I'm gonna focus on videos that will be searched often in the long run and land on the suggested section of bigger videos.
5. Next is how I grew through Reddit. I used Tube buddy, and looked at which subreddits successful channels of my niche posted in. I still continue to do this, and have built a huge list. I spent months studying how the site worked. One of the biggest thing I learned is how to title my videos effectively. Don’t always use the actual title of your video when posting. Instead think about the needs of the people in each subreddit, and then craft a title based on that (as long as it’s still related to your video).
Also once you have experimented with various subreddits, pay close attention to the big subreddits where you ranked high. Then come up with videos with a subject that you know will target the needs of a handful of those good subreddits, and this can easily get you 1000's of views. Some websites and blogs look at reddit and if yours ranks high enough, there's a chance they'll write about you, and you'll get even more views.
6. Make your outro or call to action unique. The moment I made mines unique, my subscribe rate sky rocketed. Also consider making something at the end of your outro different each time, this way subscribers won't just skip it because they've seen it before. This can help a bit with watch time.
7. And most importantly: Pretend it’s day 1 everyday, and that you got a mountain left to climb. I picture myself at the bottom again as I go for my climb to 2k.There's always something new to learn.
And as BONUS, to anyone who wants to have me look at their channel and review it live through Blab, feel free to message me through FB/Twitter.
Thanks everyone whose helped me reach this milestone
1. Learn and study from channels bigger than you. Anyone in the forum or who I come across who has a channel bigger, I respect and take notes even if I don’t agree with every point. I check out their channels, looking at little details.
2. Teach what you know to channels smaller than yours. This will help reinforce what you know. And if you’re able to teach something new to a bigger channel, they’ll be more inclined to teach you a secret or two.
3. When you’re beginning, experiment with a lot of ways to promote. I used to promote through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Periscope, Google+, Reddit, various forums and much more. Then after awhile, look at your analytics and see which ones are actually working. Then spend 80% of your promotion time on what actually works, while still experimenting with 20%.
4. Subscribe to Youtube growth channels. My favourite one is Roberto Blake’s channel, as I watched him grow from 75k sub to 128k sub during my 4 months. I learned a lot about Youtube’s SEO from him. Moving forward, I'm gonna focus on videos that will be searched often in the long run and land on the suggested section of bigger videos.
5. Next is how I grew through Reddit. I used Tube buddy, and looked at which subreddits successful channels of my niche posted in. I still continue to do this, and have built a huge list. I spent months studying how the site worked. One of the biggest thing I learned is how to title my videos effectively. Don’t always use the actual title of your video when posting. Instead think about the needs of the people in each subreddit, and then craft a title based on that (as long as it’s still related to your video).
Also once you have experimented with various subreddits, pay close attention to the big subreddits where you ranked high. Then come up with videos with a subject that you know will target the needs of a handful of those good subreddits, and this can easily get you 1000's of views. Some websites and blogs look at reddit and if yours ranks high enough, there's a chance they'll write about you, and you'll get even more views.
6. Make your outro or call to action unique. The moment I made mines unique, my subscribe rate sky rocketed. Also consider making something at the end of your outro different each time, this way subscribers won't just skip it because they've seen it before. This can help a bit with watch time.
7. And most importantly: Pretend it’s day 1 everyday, and that you got a mountain left to climb. I picture myself at the bottom again as I go for my climb to 2k.There's always something new to learn.
And as BONUS, to anyone who wants to have me look at their channel and review it live through Blab, feel free to message me through FB/Twitter.
Thanks everyone whose helped me reach this milestone
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